Game of the Week: Arkanoid

Sparks43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQX9PeBz4A

Released in 1986 by Taito this breakout clone takes the genre to a new level.

You Mothership gets blown to bits and your Vaus gets ripped into a void.Quite simple enough really:D

On the surface this is just another bat and ball game but with many different power ups and lots of different level designs this is a game that will keep you busy for quite a while.

Other then Boulder Dash this was one of my Favourite games on the C64 and Arkanoid has found its way onto many other platforms most recently on the Xbox360


Well worth playing and im sure most of you will be shocked at my choice for game of the week

Cant post vids as i am in college but i am sure most of you remember this Classic.

Optimus Prime

Great game, had this myself on the C64 Years ago and played it for hours. nice pick. im dreading getting picked for this game of the week thing, ive no idea what ill go with!

longshotvalue

Great Game, but the second one was better revenge of DOH, probably my most played game ever..

DinoRex

Yeah, Revenge of Doh is the one I really remember playing to death on the C64.

Pyongyang

Great choice of game! I remember playing this loads many years ago. Simple, quality gaming. Nice one.

Relikk

My uncle was lethal at Arkanoid (arcade). We used to have a book in the 80's and 90's that sourced high scores from Twin Galaxies and he smashed their best recorded high score on the hardest setting by quite a margin, every time.

Pyongyang

Was Arkanoid made by the fella that made Uridium?

johnny_ultimate

Araknoid is Spanish for Boulder Dash, right?

LoGiE

An absoulte classic. I played it to death in Dublin Airport and it was pretty distinctive with the dial/spinner.

purplek

Yeah, remember it well. Spent weeks playing it on my beloved Atari 800XL!

CiDeRmAn

And for the truly committed collector, which would be all of you, here is something to bid upon, given the game of the week.
Arkanoid controller for Nes

sham69

Pyongyang wrote: »

Was Arkanoid made by the fella that made Uridium?

I think that was Paradroid, Andrew Braybrook.

Arkanoid, class game, the Martin Galway tune is class.

Azure_sky

I only ever played the XBLA remake. Good game but a bit repetitive.

CiDeRmAn

I was never much of a fan of Breakout clones, Breakout itself is fine but the follow-ups with pickups and the rest all seem to add too much random into the mix.

Retr0gamer

I'm a revenge of doh man myself. Loved the C64 conversion.

Dr Bob

here's the inevitable video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8XKG51s7k

kevin2me

Its like PONG on steroids

Sparks43

luas_dublin wrote: »

here's the inevitable video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8XKG51s7k

Been up to my neck with study so i only seen this without sound a few days ago

Watched it properly tonight and loved it

Nice 1:cool:

Dr Bob

Sparks43 wrote: »

luas_dublin wrote: »

here's the inevitable video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8XKG51s7k

Been up to my neck with study so i only seen this without sound a few days ago

Watched it properly tonight and loved it

Nice 1:cool:

cheers .one thing I found is that it plays about 500 times better with paddles .

Irish Aris

oh my!!!! You are taking me back to my teenage years!!!! What lovely games we used to play back then!!!

Retr0gamer

Keep making those videos luas_dublin, I'm loving them.

kevin2me

Booted up the Arcade machine for first time in ages....
and lost hours to Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh.

Its kicks my ass everytime and I keep coming back for more....
Its kinda like a Woman... She''ll wreck your head but ull still come back for mor e:)

Nice one Sparks...

kitakyushu

Pyongyang wrote: »

Was Arkanoid made by the fella that made Uridium?

I wouldn't consider myself the worlds best gamer or anything but my god is that game hard! Each element of it is simple but the combination is so so unforgiving. I'm playing on emulator atm and I've probably used up dozens of lives just to get to level 12 so far. The idea of someone getting thru it all in 3 is impressive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6e0HUkS_Yw

OwaynOTT

Should game of the week make a comeback?

Dr Bob

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Should game of the week make a comeback?

considering my name still hadn't come up , yes , yes it should!

Retr0gamer

It would help if other people would do the random thing every friday, I ended up doing it myself and when booze, drugs and women got in the way it got forgotten about. Nothing stopping people running it in the randomiser right now. At the moment I'm too busy doing drugs, Xenoblade is that addictive.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It would help if other people would do the random thing every friday, I ended up doing it myself and when booze, drugs and women got in the way it got forgotten about. Nothing stopping people running it in the randomiser right now. At the moment I'm too busy doing drugs, Xenoblade is that addictive.

So basically

I'm too lazy, someone else do it

I commend your honesty good knave

o1s1n

Would it be possible to do a randomizer on a game list instead? So nobody really picks a game?

We'd end up playing lots of games we'd never heard of before. Some would be ****, but that'd be part of the fun I guess!

Retr0gamer

Add Legend of Dragoon and Overblood to the list.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Would it be possible to do a randomizer on a game list instead? So nobody really picks a game?

We'd end up playing lots of games we'd never heard of before. Some would be ****, but that'd be part of the fun I guess!

Great idea. New thread & close suggestions by Saturday evening or so?

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Great idea. New thread & close suggestions by Saturday evening or so?

Not up for this idea at all. The populist choice wins and then it gets boring.